Lucy Gossage

In April 2012, Gossage won the European Women's duathlon title,[1] and she retained the title in 2013,[2] as well as finishing the Powerman Duathlon World Series in second place in 2012.[3] Aged 34, she decided to become a full-time Ironman Triathlon competitor.[4] She won her first Ironman event in 2013 in the United Kingdom, and later in the year won the Wales Ironman event;[5] that year, she won the British Triathlon Federation award for female Long Distance Triathlete of the Year.[4] Her other victories in Ironman Triathlons have been in 2014 in Lanzarote, and in the UK in 2015 and 2016.[5][6][7] She qualified for the 2016 Ironman World Championship,[8] and finished ninth, despite breaking her collarbone eight weeks prior to the race.[9] Gossage retired from professional sport to focus on her job;[10] 2020 was scheduled to be her last year.[11]

Gossage studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, with her PhD focusing on kidney cancer, and she is a trained cancer doctor.[4][8] Gossage started working as a specialist registrar in 2009, and as of 2020, she worked as an oncology consultant at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.[11] From 2014 to 2016, she took two years away from her academic career to focus on her sports career.[11]